There are angels on the tree?”“Ah, because we all pray there are really angels watching over us, don’t we?

Actually, Jake said, isn't life what we make it, wherever we are, whenever we may be - wherever it is that we are?

Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Sleep riches and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.

Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.

Anyone who’s ever put a stamp on an envelope or a note on their refrigerator knows what it’s like to make a collage. There’s no esoteric technique.

Everybody is headed for the same place, and they are headed on the same train, and under the same engineer.

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery?

After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance.

Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor.